Why are Catholic schools firg gay teachers, and how n one refe? | Natnal Catholic Reporter

Contents:

• COURT SIS WH CATHOLIC SCHOOL THAT LET EMPLOYEE GO OVER HER GAY MARRIAGE
• CAN A RELIG SCHOOL FIRE A GAY TEACHER? IT'S PLITED.
• GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
• FIRED GAY TEACHER WS LAWSU AGAST CATHOLIC SCHOOL AND DCE
• CATHOLIC SCHOOL FIR GAY TEACHER TO STAY IN INDIANAPOLIS ARCHDCE
• CATHOLIC SCHOOL FACG PROTTS FOR ALLEGEDLY FORCG GAY TEACHERS OUT OF THEIR JOBS
• WHY ARE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FIRG GAY TEACHERS — AND HOW N ONE REFE?
• GAY TEACHER AT CATHOLIC SCHOOL APPEALS FOR AN END TO THE FIRG OF LGBTQ CHURCH WORKERS
• WHY ARE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FIRG GAY TEACHERS, AND HOW N ONE REFE?
• THOUGHTS OM A GAY TEACHER A CATHOLIC SCHOOL
• A GAY MIC TEACHER GOT MARRIED. THE BROOKLYN DCE FIRED HIM.
• SOME US CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS BELIEVE RELIG EEDOM MEANS THEY N FIRE GAY TEACHERS
• LGBTQ VS. RELIGN: HOW A GAY GUIDANCE UNSELOR'S FIRG ULD AFFECT LNS OF WORKERS
• A TEACHER FIRED OM A CATHOLIC SCHOOL FOR BEG GAY HAS REACHED A SETTLEMENT
• FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG
• AN INDIANA CATHOLIC SCHOOL FIRED A GAY TEACHER FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. NOW, A SETTLEMENT

COURT SIS WH CATHOLIC SCHOOL THAT LET EMPLOYEE GO OVER HER GAY MARRIAGE

”The archdce — which is also beg sued by a gay teacher who was recently fired om a different Catholic school Indianapolis — claims that has a “nstutnal right to hire lears who support the schools’ relig missn.

"The issue of gay tors beg fired by or exclud om employment at relig schools is not new, and sce 2014, several s have e before the urts.

”In orr to unrstand the rights of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer workers employed by relig anizatns, one mt nsir both feral and state law, the Constutn and executive orrs.

CAN A RELIG SCHOOL FIRE A GAY TEACHER? IT'S PLITED.

(iStock/Grzegorz Zdziarski)As a gay Catholic teacher, I have spent much of my life a prer balance. Growg up a Catholic fay, gog to Catholic schools, I know what is like to balance my ep-seated valu as a practicg Catholic wh the dictat of beg a discerng gay person potentially averse environments.

The three charg that gui the missn of the task force are: (1) to study and discs church teachg and tradn as relat to sexualy and moral velopment; (2) to analyze the opns of archdcan stakeholrs (cludg stunts, fai, alumni and the staff of archdcan schools) regardg the misterial venant; and (3) to remend to the archbishop an rmed approach to the misterial venant that rpects the first two the church ntu to say that gay Catholics nnot work church stutns, is really sayg that they mt live dishontly or leave the n image the qutns. We have been imagg fuller gay cln for a long time.

This is about cidg who gets to be the church ntu to say that gay Catholics nnot work church stutns, is really sayg that they mt live dishontly or leave the church.

GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT

” Some may still say there is no such thg as a “gay Catholic, ” that the phrase is ngo. I urge you to jo by askg your bishops to do the, let pse the practice of removg gay faculty to iate a search for unrstandg. WASHINGTON – A feral appeals urt has led that a Catholic high school Indianapolis was ee to fire a gay guidance unselor bee she performed at least some relig duti, the latt legal setback for LGBTQ+ rights when they nflict wh Fzgerald had worked for 14 years as a guidance unselor at Ronlli High School when school officials disvered she was married to another woman.

FIRED GAY TEACHER WS LAWSU AGAST CATHOLIC SCHOOL AND DCE

A North Carola gay teacher who was fired om his job as a substute at a Catholic high school has won his sex discrimatn se fedral urt. Today’s cisn validat that I did nothg wrong by beg a gay man. “The fendants [the school and the archdce] said that they fired Billard not bee he was gay, but rather bee ‘he engaged “advocy” that went agast the Catholic Church’s beliefs’ when he publicly announced he was marryg another man, the lg said.

A Catholic high school Indianapolis says has cid to fire a gay teacher to rema the lol archdce.

CATHOLIC SCHOOL FIR GAY TEACHER TO STAY IN INDIANAPOLIS ARCHDCE

Stunts and parents were planng protts after a Catholic school outsi of Seattle allegedly forced out two teachers for beg gay. Jt a few days later, the nearby Cathedral High School — which is also Catholic — announced that would fire a teacher who was openly gay after beg threatened wh the same rult by the archbishop. Catholic lears have been firg gay employe for a while.

CATHOLIC SCHOOL FACG PROTTS FOR ALLEGEDLY FORCG GAY TEACHERS OUT OF THEIR JOBS

The bate Indiana is only the latt chapter an ongog ntroversy over gay Catholic employe that stretch back several years. The followg year, at least two openly gay teachers were eher fired or nied jobs at Catholic schools. While some stutns attempted to change polici after the firgs garnered media attentn, Catholic lears and admistrators generally jtified their cisns by potg to the techism of the Catholic Church, which refers to “homosexual tennci” as “objectively disorred.

Even as rank-and-file Amerin Catholics exprsed outrage at the firgs, however, a subtext emerged: Catholic lears were not necsarily probg the private liv of their employe, but appeared primarily ncerned wh whether their employe were gay public.

In 2015, for example, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, head of the San Francis Archdce, distributed a new handbook for teachers at Catholic schools unr his purview stctg them to rea om “visibly” ntradictg the church’s teachgs on homosexualy and other issu such as abortn or birth ntrol.

WHY ARE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FIRG GAY TEACHERS — AND HOW N ONE REFE?

Catholic learship has sce argued that this clus posns held by teachers, and as such exempts them om nondiscrimatn laws that might otherwise bar firg someone simply for beg openly gay.

Some of the more proment firgs of openly gay teachers at Catholic schools have sparked phback, but the se at Brebf has elevated a new bate about church thory.

Catholic schools fire gay teachers for beg gay all the time, but some say they look the other way on other ss.

GAY TEACHER AT CATHOLIC SCHOOL APPEALS FOR AN END TO THE FIRG OF LGBTQ CHURCH WORKERS

Stop if you've heard this one before: a Catholic school fired a well-liked teacher for the "s" of beg gay.

Ft says that gay teachers are beg targeted, and argu that her firg is clear anti-LGBT discrimatn.

WHY ARE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FIRG GAY TEACHERS, AND HOW N ONE REFE?

Crics ask: why do gay sners get fired, but other sners get a ee pass? This is hardly the first time a relig school has fired a teacher for beg gay. But do they have the right to specifilly target gay people?

THOUGHTS OM A GAY TEACHER A CATHOLIC SCHOOL

Ft argu that her firg is not jt an example of failg to uphold Catholic valu, but of specific discrimatn bee she is gay – potg out that that there are plenty of sng teachers at the school. I don't unrstand why me beg gay is any different then those thgs. Should Catholic schools face phback for routely targetg gay teachers, while lettg other ss sli?

In an say published by Ameri, Le Janicki, a gay Catholic English teacher at Kennedy Catholic High School, Burien, Washgton, articulat the stggle workg for a Catholic stutn light of the forced rignatn of two fellow LGBTQ tors, Michelle Beattie and Pl Danfort:. “As a gay Catholic teacher, I have spent much of my life a prer balance. “If the church ntu to say that gay Catholics nnot work church stutns, is really sayg that they mt live dishontly or leave the church.

A GAY MIC TEACHER GOT MARRIED. THE BROOKLYN DCE FIRED HIM.

While some stutns attempted to change polici after the firgs garnered media attentn, Catholic lears and admistrators generally jtified their cisns by potg to the techism of the Catholic Church, which refers to "homosexual tennci" as "objectively disorred.

SOME US CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS BELIEVE RELIG EEDOM MEANS THEY N FIRE GAY TEACHERS

In 2015, for example, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, head of the San Francis Archdce, distributed a new handbook for teachers at Catholic schools unr his purview stctg them to rea om "visibly" ntradictg the church’s teachgs on homosexualy and other issu such as abortn or birth ntrol. A versn of this story appeared the July 12-25, 2019 prt issue unr the headle: Firg gay teachers, or not, is plited.

A junr high teacher yearns to be a posive gay role mol her Catholic school.

It is about homosexualy. You see, I am gay, and I am a Catholic school teacher. When you are raised a two-parent nservative Catholic fay where your mom stayed home, the channel is changed on the TV when a uple starts kissg, and the word sex was never uttered out loud, the word gay meant happy but nothg else.

LGBTQ VS. RELIGN: HOW A GAY GUIDANCE UNSELOR'S FIRG ULD AFFECT LNS OF WORKERS

Homosexualy? As other people do not choose to be heterosexual, I do not choose to be gay.

Some of my iends thk I'm a ltle crazy to stay a relign that do not outwardly accept gays. I long for and pray for the day when psychology and relign agree that homosexualy is not a choice. I have always honored that, but is gettg more difficult bee I want to assure those my classrooms who have gay dads or moms or uncl or sisters that is OK.

It is time to put a face on the posive gay role mols our society.

A TEACHER FIRED OM A CATHOLIC SCHOOL FOR BEG GAY HAS REACHED A SETTLEMENT

The relign book has the followg to say about this issue: "The church regniz that homosexual persons, like all persons, have been created God's image and have digny. However, nmns homosexual acts and nsirs them to be stctive of the fay stcture society.

I am gay. Joseph Catholic Amy LaBan said he did not keep his sexual orientatn a secret at work, although he “didn’t make a big al of my weddg at all” bee he was aware of church teachg on homosexualy. I was rpectful that regard, but people knew I was gay.

More about Liam StackA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 21 of the New York edn wh the headle: Brooklyn Dce Fir Gay Teacher Who Wed. Instead, he was terrogated wh a seri of vague, leadg qutns that attempted to get him to adm he was had been out for years – and knew his ntract never stated he uldn’t be gay and teach at Valor – but shame-filled memori of his closeted years as a young man rose up that moment, as his job slipped away.

FIRG OF GAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL TEACHER ULD TT LATT SUPREME COURT LG

“They offered to help me stop beg gay, wh my ‘stggle’, ” Tonga says. ”The offer they ma was for Tonga to attend some form of “nversn therapy”, and when he returned to announce he isn’t gay, cut off ntact wh his fiance, scb his social media of any support for the LGBTQ muny, and nounce his support for them before the school.

“They said a lot of parents pay a lot of money to go to Valor, jt so their kids don’t have to mentored by someone who is gay, ” he cled their offer, and rigned. Outrage on the part of stunts, parents, alumni and alli over Tonga losg his job for beg gay is part of a s-long battle between anti-discrimatn laws and the right of private Christian schools (of which there are approximately 34, 500 the US alone) to relig sce the 1964 Civil Rights Act threatened the tax-exempt stat of Christian schools who refed to racially tegrate, relig schools the US have tangled wh social jtice activists seekg equal protectns for mory stunts and employe.

AN INDIANA CATHOLIC SCHOOL FIRED A GAY TEACHER FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. NOW, A SETTLEMENT

A nearly intil scenar volvg a gay mic teacher fired om a Catholic school played out only a short distance away at the same issue is further plited stat like Florida – where the le between public school and private relig school is sometim blurred. Steven Arz, a sixth-gra history teacher, found himself fired om a Seventh Day Adventist school – which is publicly fund wh $1m a year tax dollars and creds – after he was featured a Gay Wh Kids article where he discsed his adopted son. ”Block and the ACLU have found some succs ligatg the month, a feral judge led that the firg of the North Carola teacher Lonnie Billard om a Catholic school for beg gay was a vlatn of the Civil Rights Act, shuttg down the school’s attempt to argue that they had a relig exemptn om the law.

“Today’s cisn validat that I did nothg wrong by beg a gay man. ”This laid the groundwork for the followg generatn of evangelil lears such as Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and Tim LeHay, who partnered wh the Republin party to stir up anger around issu evangelils prevly red ltle about, like abortn, dgs and the rights of women and gays.

Campaigns to overturn gay rights legislatn like “Save Our Children” Florida (led by evangelil superstar Ana Bryant), or California’s Prop 6, which sought to ban gay men and lbians om teachg public schools, both equated homosexualy wh pedophilia and acced gay teachers of beg sexually motivated their reer the villas were new, the tactic of gng up basels fears had been the rnerstone of whe flight to Christian schools a Jon Universy’s lack of black stunts was rooted s ban on terracial datg. When the universy eventually tegrated 1971, allowed only married black stunts to attend, and 1975 allowed sgle black stunts but nied “admissn to applints engaged an terracial marriage or known to advote terracial marriage or datg” openly opposg racial tegratn eventually beme an effective tool for galvanizg evangelil voters – replaced by racist dog-whistl – gays tegratg themselv to the Amerin fay remaed a potent touchstone for the Christian right. “In 2004, evangelil lears were nng out of money and their voters had been fallg away, so they all got a room together to ci what issu would brg their flock back to the fold, and they cid on gay marriage, ” says Fzgerald.